Developer breaks ground on Oakland Township luxury home subdivision

(from left) Terry Gonser, Oakland Twp. Supervisor; Dominic Moceri, Moceri Companies; Michael Chirco, MJC Companies; Frances Moceri, Moceri Companies; L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Executive; and Mario Moceri, Moceri Companies, at the groundbreaking for The Ultimate Homearama at Pinnacle in Oakland Township, pictured Wednesday November 6, 2013 The project will consist of six to eight luxury homes, each designed, built, fully decorated and landscaped by the area's top professional that will be open to the public when finished in August 2014. (Oakland Press Photo:Vaughn Gurganian)

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — Twenty-five years ago, developer Dominic Moceri helmed construction of the Hills of Oakland, a neighborhood on Adams Road featured in an international showcase of luxury homes.

That iteration of the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan’s Homearama drew the largest attendance in the event’s three-decade run, Moceri said Wednesday. The developer is hoping to match that response when his company’s next undertaking, the $137 million Pinnacle at Oaklands, debuts as the featured site next year for Homearama 2014.

With county and township officials on-hand, Moceri Companies held a ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday of Pinnacle, an upscale community on a stretch of Silverbell Road known as the “Billion Dollar Mile” that the developer expects to produce a $250 million economic impact to the community.

When complete, the sprawling, picturesque site on Silverbell Road, just east of Adams Road will feature 81 homes from 4,800 to 9,000 square feet, Moceri said.

The subdivision stands as the last of seven phases in Moceri’s award-winning development of upscale neighborhoods called The Oaklands.

“This has been the showcase for environmental sensitivity and economic sustainability,” he said.

Guests were escorted to a model home Wednesday by trolley after Moceri offered remarks on the project, which is expected to draw international attention at the Homearama showcase next August. Moceri said it will be the fourth time he’s been involved in the showcase.

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“The ultimate premium” of the neighborhood is “it bounds around nature,” Moceri said.

The site backs up to Wyndgate Country Club and Gallagher Creek lines Pinnacle’s landscape. Traffic will flow through an entrance along Silverbell, with the site stretching a half-mile north.

Township Supervisor Terry Gonser said Wednesday it’s exciting “that this type of development is going into Oakland Township.”

“It really is the pinnacle,” Gonser said.

Homearama 2014 also marks the third time Oakland Township has been showcased in the event.

“Not very many communities can boast that,” Gonser said, if any at all.

Up to eight homes valued from $1.65 million to $3.4 million will be open to the public for viewing at next year’s event. Moceri said the homes should be outfitted with basements within the next two weeks.

Builders include Cranbrook Homes, MJC Companies and Arteva Homes, along with Moceri.

Homearama 2014 will be held Aug. 29 to Sept. 21, 2014. Tickets are $10 or $20 for a season pass.

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